From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Dereferencing and style guides
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 21:40:40 -0500
Date: 2013-10-18T21:40:40-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <l3srf8$ru7$1@loke.gir.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wcc8uy0t1ec.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com
"Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in message
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> By "dereference fails", I assume you're talking about null pointers.
> I wasn't so worried about that -- I'm more worried about
> aliasing. I'm thinking "X^.Y := ..." is a helpful reminder that
> some other pointers might also point to X^.
That's helpful? It seems to me that there is a design problem if you have
such additional pointers (especially in client code). The only access type
you have to use in Ada 2012 is the reference object in the containers
libraries. Anything else deserves flogging with a wet noodle. :-) (Unless
you are writing a containers library itself, of course.)
Randy.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-19 2:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-30 6:35 Dereferencing and style guides Natasha Kerensikova
2013-09-30 7:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-09-30 12:51 ` Robert A Duff
2013-09-30 16:49 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-09-30 18:18 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-10-03 19:20 ` Robert A Duff
2013-10-04 13:22 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-10-04 13:25 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-10-07 16:10 ` Eryndlia Mavourneen
2013-10-08 0:48 ` Robert A Duff
2013-10-10 7:35 ` Stefan.Lucks
2013-10-10 14:48 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-10-10 22:49 ` Robert A Duff
2013-10-11 8:07 ` Bill Findlay
2013-10-11 12:52 ` Robert A Duff
2013-10-11 13:02 ` G.B.
2013-10-11 13:19 ` Bill Findlay
2013-10-19 2:40 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2013-10-19 2:46 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-10-19 2:36 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-09-30 13:53 ` Eryndlia Mavourneen
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